{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_tv_jer044_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_tv_jer044_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_tv_jer044_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/tv/jer044.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly transliteration of Biblical Hebrew \u2014 specifically Jeremiah chapter 44 \u2014 rendered in romanized form with systematic diacritical notation rather than translated into English. It belongs to the prophetic literature tradition of the Hebrew Bible.\n\nThe chapter records Jeremiah delivering God's condemnation to Jewish exiles living in Egypt (at Migdol, Tahpanhes, Noph, and Pathros), accusing them of repeating the same idolatry \u2014 burning incense to foreign gods \u2014 that brought destruction upon Jerusalem. God threatens to annihilate these remaining survivors in Egypt through sword and famine, leaving virtually no remnant of Judah.\n\nThe chapter's most striking feature is the community's defiant rebuttal: the people, particularly the women, openly refuse to obey Jeremiah and insist they will continue worshipping the Queen of Heaven, arguing that their former prosperity depended on that cult and that abandoning it brought only calamity. This direct, collective rejection of the prophet is unusually confrontational within prophetic literature.\n\nJeremiah responds by inverting their logic \u2014 attributing past disaster precisely to that idolatry \u2014 and God seals the confrontation with an oath that His name will no longer be invoked by any Jew in Egypt. The chapter closes with Pharaoh Hophra offered as a predictive sign: as Zedekiah was handed to Babylon, so Hophra will be handed to his enemies.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) with vowels: Jeremiah: yermiy 44","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":504}